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We welcome entries that are not traditional scrapbooking - such as art journalling, painting, cards, mixed media, off-the-page work. However you like to create - we welcome your work!



Thursday, November 29, 2012

our guest designers for december 2012


Sandra has been playing along with us regularly, and we thank her for sending us the suggestion for this month's 1 December 2012 challenge.  We are very pleased to have her as a guest designer this month, and recommend that you visit her blog to see her lovely work!!


I'm a happily married retired lady and my husband and I have four adult children and six grandchildren who are subjects of my scrapbooking. We live in Australia and love to travel our beautiful country and intend to do more now we're retired.

I started scrapbooking in 2007 and don't really have a style of my own yet because I swap and change while trying to guess what the challenge sites want to see. Sometimes I love nice clean lines and other times I love to distress, fussy cut and ink everything.

I feel that I'm improving each day and have started to Art Journal and use mixed media; it's fun getting messy and I love to see what the end result brings. I've found this a great way to learn how to use mixed media and then transfer it to a scrapbook page.


Dani participated in last month's challenge and her name was drawn to be our guest designer this month. Her work is lovely! Please visit her blog to see for yourself.



I'm Dani Cristina,
already 30 years old, living with my husband in the sunny state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
I knew the art of scrapbooking in 2010, but before I occupied myself with oil paintings and drawings, then I fell in love with this new way to preserve memories and share with people so friendly.
I'd say my style is artistic, like working with textures and technique Mixed Media too.
I'm happy with the invitation and I hope you enjoy my participation.

You can find more of my work here;
http://fazendoartecomdanicristin.blogspot.com


Monday, November 19, 2012

Thursday, November 15, 2012

15 november sketch challenge

This month we are playing for a chance to be randomly drawn as a guest designer along with our featured guest designer in January.
 
Here is our sketch for you to interpret - please post a link to your layout by 30 November 10 pm EST.






our winner of our September 2012 challenge and guest designer Margaret Walz


 and our featured guest designer Vibeke


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

our freaking faves for october and our next winner of a guest design spot ...

Wow - great participation last month!!

Our faves for 1 October 12 challenge were:






Our faves for 15 October 12 challenge were:




and the random winner of our guest design spot for December was Dani Cristina.  Dani - please e-mail me at anne.pennington@xplornet.com so that I can send you the challenges for December.


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Monday, November 12, 2012

monday's mentions 12 november 2012

Congratulations to Vibeke and Monique Leidtke were winners of the October challenge over at Once Upon a Sketch! Beautiful work ladies, so proud of you!!!

My work was a gallery inclusion in Issue 67 of Scrapbook Magazine.  Alas, I cannot find a copy over here and there are no longer copies available from the company!!


Thursday, November 1, 2012

1 november 2012 scrapbook challenge ...

Hallowe'en has just passed - and it is time to get ready for Christmas - but wait - it is also time for our November 1 challenge!!

Our challenge this month is to:

 Scrap about your first job. If you have photos of you from that era, include one, or any other photo that is significant about that time. Include a bit of journaling if you like of your memories. Did you like it? Hate it? Were you nervous?
I don't have photos of my first job, but I do of my third - at the tender age of 17 or 18.  Always feel free to adapt to our challenges but keep in the same spirit as much as you can. 

This month we are playing for a chance to be randomly drawn as a guest designer along with our featured guest designer in January.
 


Lindy Gillespie



Out for publication!! Congratulations Sarah!!!




our winner of our September 2012 challenge and guest designer Margaret Walz


 and our featured guest designer Vibeke